Dissecting a genius: FSU's Falk leads team studying Einstein's brain

FSU's Falk leads team studying Einstein's brain

11:57 PM,
Nov. 26, 2012

Dean Falk, an anthropology professor at FSU, was part of a team that studied previously unexamined photographs of Einstein's brain. Their findings appeared in the British journal 'Brain.' Falk was lead author.

Written by

Doug Blackburn
Democrat senior writer

The proof is in the seemingly unique frontal lobes of the theoretical physicist's brain.

A subject of intense interest and incredible intrigue, Einstein's brain has been a mini-industry for most of the 57 years since the Nobel Prize-winning scientist died at the Princeton Medical Center in 1955. ...